I'm tossing another vote to Blitz. I'd say I was split on time spent and I know I spent more on Blitz. I just want to give it some love.

Exalt, and sadly true.

I love both these games, but Super Mario World has it on this one. It twas the killer app for the SNES.

Pack in! PACK IN! YOU! Tell 'em Luigi...

Yeah, I think there's a lot more to the gameplay in Snake Eater. It's like a cross between Rambo and Bond, and you have to go across a lot more varied set of locales(jungles, bases, swamps, underground tunnels, up a mountain), and the stories a lot easier to take it than in 2. I go into more detail in the first round match with Snake Eater. They do sorta have Raiden in Snake Eater though, as there's a russian officer who looks just like him in the game called Raidenovich Raikov. And what they do with Raiden in 4 is pretty cool.

Yeah, it's weird. Most of the russian characters in it have non-russian accents (mostly american, one english), though there is a character with a heavy russian accent. Though they do reveal at the end of the credits that Ocelot is a CIA Double Agent.

I voted God of War, but I've got no regrets if it gets beat by a game like Contra.

I should super smite your ass for dating a neanderthal meathead! Blitz?!?!?

Bah humbug!...

Chrono Trigger is one of the best RPGs ever made.

Castlevania is good, too, and if this was SNES Super Castlevania or Symphony of the Night, I'd put this over Chrono, but it isn't so I won't. Chrono Trigger it is.

Rock Band is great but Super Mario 3 is the greatest.

I remember playing an early arcade version of the original Street Fighter, where the controls were just two drum-pad type things. I was maybe 11 or 12, but I remember a bunch of guys huddled up around the machine, and apparently the objective of the game was to hit the pads as hard as possible in order to pull off the big moves. Well, one kid came out with a Louisville Slugger, and just beat the everloving SHIT out of those two pads. He won the game, but was shortly thereafter arrested for destruction of private property. It was definitely entertaining to watch. I just stood there and played Centipede while the guy got hauled off.

Yeah, FF7 got me fired from two different jobs. I think I was like 18-19 at the time, and I called out sick for like 3 days to play the game, because I was SO addicted. And then the second job, I got into the training class, but was late to work 2 days in a row because I had to finish cut-scenes. LOVE THIS GAME!

Sorry, Missile Command.

I don't think I played either in the arcade, just on the home consoles, so maybe the home console versions were lacking. I was never a huge fan of fighting games, but MK was fun. Rampage, not so much really.

Tecmo wins for Bo Jackson. I love FFX, but I have to give the vote to one of the greatest football games of all time.

I, too played SMB for the first time at Chuck E. Cheese. But, I loved the Star Wars game a whole hell of a lot, too. This is a tough call. I think I have to go with SMB.

Yeah, I hope you and yours make it through Ike ok. Tina did, so you have a shot...

Did you change his name to Judas?

How could I not exalt the Mercenaries 2 reference?

Its weird because I was the one having this arcade argument but of all the places to raise it this seems like the weirdest one. Because Karate Champ is in no way a highly praised arcade game while Goldeneye is one of the most loved games of my time. But Byrne framed it like "Goldeneye? Really, Goldeneye?!" I mean I never loved it myself because it wasn't my style but I was in the extreme minority and still am to this day.

Same with Mario Bros vs Star Wars. If you're going to raise the "Home Console vs Arcade" fight don't do it when you have an iconic console game on the board vs a not so iconic arcade game. That one ain't a win.

EDIT: Of course looking at the showdowns there's not a lot of great opportunities. The best examples I see of a clearly more iconic Arcade game than a Console are Ms Pacman vs Metal Gear Solid (And Lady Pacman ran over that contest) and Blitz vs Twilight Princess (and that's a draw). So Arcade games seem to hold up pretty well as NBA Jam's also fighting it out with No Mercy. It just seems like a handful of Arcade games are being unlucky enough to go up against some of the iconic games of systems. I know that's how I felt with After Burner vs Vice City which made me sad but was inevitable.

I really just hate all things Zelda. I've tried playing the games and I'm not interested. I even tried playing the Zelda game here at Pun's and nothing. I've played Rachet and Clank and I enjoyed it. It got my vote, even though I know it will lose.

I like Resident Evil, even though I think it's a little overrated, but I think Sonic 2 is unquestionably the best Sonic game and better than any Mario game other than Super Mario 64 and maybe Super Mario World.

Never played God of War. Guess that puts me in the Perfect Dark camp. I thought it was a pretty damn good game though not as good as Goldeneye.

I never said I couldn't get past the first level. I said that I remember struggling early just getting comfortable with the 3D format and the new moves Mario had. But I did, fell in love with the game, and then realized that the sun had come up.

I was merely empathizing with MKid's early struggles and assuring him that it wasn't just him who struggled early.

Yeah, both these games are awesome.

But to reference Solly's earlier post-- any Sonic 1-3 would have deserved to kick the fucking shit out of either of these games.

It might be a youtube thing. The same thing happened in another thread yesterday.

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I played neither but GTA gets my vote over Soul Caliber on the basis of series over series.